Ask The Pornographer - 2015

[Harke the Boeotarch]

OK... I'm bored. Ask me more stuff.

Do you ever go to fetish parties?

 

[star-warrior]

What will you be doing for the Winter Solstice?

 

[Soilwork]

Do you ever go to fetish parties?

Not as often as I used to but yes. When I can.

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What will you be doing for the Winter Solstice?

Plans at the moment are that I'll be in Palm Springs enjoying a couple weeks vacation.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

OK, every guy that thinks he can be the next porn star really underestimates the power of "stage fright" and the way it can shut down the machinery, but good! The results of not mentoring, befriending and empathizing with new recruits is showing up on some of my favorite pornsites.

Yes I understand that time is money, but making porn is not like loading trucks at a warehouse.

Is my observation valid or am I just not understanding what goes on in the studio?

 

[Soilwork]

OK, every guy that thinks he can be the next porn star really underestimates the power of "stage fright" and the way it can shut down the machinery, but good! The results of not mentoring, befriending and empathizing with new recruits is showing up on some of my favorite pornsites.

Yes I understand that time is money, but making porn is not like loading trucks at a warehouse.

Is my observation valid or am I just not understanding what goes on in the studio?

you're absolutely bang-on, actually.

Everyone has trouble their first time. Everyone has an issue getting hard. Or cumming.

If the set is uncomfortable, it's even worse. IT's why we need to create as comfortable a place as we can. It's also why I don't allow outside guests to "just watch."

 

[mikey3000]

OK... I'm bored. Ask me more stuff.

I think a little bit of porn is healthy, but too much can ruin your sex life. What say you?

 

[Soilwork]

I think a little bit of porn is healthy, but too much can ruin your sex life. What say you?

Not sure I agree, honestly. I do think that porn can be part of a healthy sex life. I also think that porn can be very bad if you use it as a how-to manual and not the fantasy that it is.

 

[redvik1]

I'm planning a winter get away at Island House in Key West based in part on your recommendations and videos. I'd also like to try Palm Springs but can't figure out where to stay. Seems it's hard to find the combination of nice facilities with a frisky environment. Can you recommend some place to stay?

 

[Soilwork]

I'm planning a winter get away at Island House in Key West based in part on your recommendations and videos. I'd also like to try Palm Springs but can't figure out where to stay. Seems it's hard to find the combination of nice facilities with a frisky environment. Can you recommend some place to stay?

There's really nothing like Island House in Palm Springs. Because of laws about nudity and alcohol, there's no gay nudist resort where they serve food and alcohol so they lack that key element.

HOWEVER... My husband and I like staying at Inndulge which is a lot quieter but nice and the crowd tends to be good.

If you're looking for a younger, more party atmosphere, go to All Worlds.

 

[Latimer]

I also think that porn can be very bad if you use it as a how-to manual and not the fantasy that it is.

I love porn, and find the how-to manual aspect both exciting and valuable. I have a great sex life--both with my long-term partner and others, and the influence of porn has all been good. Yeah, it's fantasy, but it's fantasy that can inspire reality.

 

[Soilwork]

I love porn, and find the how-to manual aspect both exciting and valuable. I have a great sex life--both with my long-term partner and others, and the influence of porn has all been good. Yeah, it's fantasy, but it's fantasy that can inspire reality.

That's very true, too.

Porn was my salvation. I saw gay porn and knew that somewhere in the world there was a place I would fit in and thrive.

 

[star-warrior]

Do you think 'porn evangelist' is a suitable job title here on jub?

 

[jdcnow]

Not sure I agree, honestly. I do think that porn can be part of a healthy sex life. I also think that porn can be very bad if you use it as a how-to manual and not the fantasy that it is.

I do kind of halfway agree, but halfway don't about the how-to manual aspect of it. I've noticed, especially here on JUB in another Hot Topics thread about how we each found out about sex. Like me, too many people had "adults" in their lives who didn't do their fucking job as parents, and were absolutely deafeningly silent about sex, period. Combine that with, if you're like me, growing up gay in a small-town Christian conservative environment, where anything outside of *married* heteronormativity is seriously looked down upon, and homosexuality is outrightly and blatantly character-assassinated as some sort of sexual predator proclivity or mental illness.

These two combined served to not only leave us as kids and developing young adults to our own devices to figure it out for ourselves, but simultaneously attempted to make sex as invisible as possible to those of us who didn't fit into heteronormativity. I think of it as that Wizard of Oz scene where they met the wizard. The religious right shows a picture of a man and woman kissing, while behind the curtain no one is supposed to look behind, you pull the curtain back, and see two guys enjoying each other.

Porn taught me that no, I'm not a bad person, just because I enjoy solo self-pleasure regularly. Porn taught me that I'm not some creep, weirdo, or monster, just because I happen to be physically, emotionally, and sexually attracted to my own gender - other men. Porn taught me that erotic emotions are part and parcel of the human condition, that EVERYONE feels this way. Men, women, trans people, everyone feels this way, that it's normal. That nothing was wrong with me. And EVERYTHING was wrong about the society I grew up in. For me, porn has literally reversed a lot of the psychiatric damage that was inflicted upon me, and infused into my mindset by the religious, morally militant environment I grew up in.

Jasun, I see your profession - the porn industry - honestly, as a public service for the greater good. It is a beautiful, personal bitch-slap counter-balance to the Puritanical, BULLSHIT heteronormativity that the religious right in this country try to forcibly shove down society's throat. Thankfully, times are a-changing though.

Thanks for your hard work in the industry.

BTW, I still enjoy that video of yours.

 

[Soilwork]

Do you think 'porn evangelist' is a suitable job title here on jub?

yes, and I want a nice high salary.

 

[Soilwork]

Porn taught me that no, I'm not a bad person, just because I enjoy solo self-pleasure regularly. Porn taught me that I'm not some creep, weirdo, or monster, just because I happen to be physically, emotionally, and sexually attracted to my own gender - other men. Porn taught me that erotic emotions are part and parcel of the human condition, that EVERYONE feels this way. Men, women, trans people, everyone feels this way, that it's normal. That nothing was wrong with me. And EVERYTHING was wrong about the society I grew up in. For me, porn has literally reversed a lot of the psychiatric damage that was inflicted upon me, and infused into my mindset by the religious, morally militant environment I grew up in.

Yeah... that's what it did for me, too.

When I say that porn isn't a "how-to" manual, what I mean is mechanically... getting fucked takes some time to start... you have to slowly ease in and take your time. I edit that out. There doesn't always have to be fucking... in porn there's always fucking.

Porn requires a lot of unnecessary grunting and talking... and the positions are meant to be able to get a good camera angle on it and are mostly uncomfortable in real life... AND... fucking doesn't have to take 45 minutes before facial cumshots...

 

[mikey3000]

I think that sometimes porn can breed unrealistic expectations of sex between non professionals. Yes it is beneficial to a certain degree, but not everyone can nor should repeatedly take a 10" cock up the ass by a group of 3, 4, or 5 guys every night in order to be sexually satisfied. Most guys already feel short changed in the dick department from watching porn, we have to be double jointed acrobats with endless stamina and washboard abs too? Porn today is an extreme sport that most can't even aspire to and could make us feel, well, less.

 

[Soilwork]

I think that sometimes porn can breed unrealistic expectations of sex between non professionals. Yes it is beneficial to a certain degree, but not everyone can nor should repeatedly take a 10" cock up the ass by a group of 3, 4, or 5 guys every night in order to be sexually satisfied. Most guys already feel short changed in the dick department from watching porn, we have to be double jointed acrobats with endless stamina and washboard abs too? Porn today is an extreme sport that most can't even aspire to and could make us feel, well, less.

Yeah, try being the short older guy holding the camera...

 

[frenchot8]

Hi guys ,
I am a French gay dude of 19 years and I have some questions for you Jasun:

1. How can we get into this world? Casting? Contacts?

2. Is François Sagat French? Which visa did he get to be able to work in the US?

3. What do you think about webcam modelling?

4. Finally, how long does it take to film all the scenes you need?

As you all can see, I am really not an expert about this world
Have a good day!!!

 

[Soilwork]

Hi guys ,

1. How can we get into this world? Casting? Contacts?

To be a performer all you need to do is be hot, be in great shape and send your pictures to a studio you want to work for. Really. That's all we need.


2. Is François Sagat French? Which visa did he get to be able to work in the US?

Yes, he's from Paris. I know he had a work visa to perform in the US but I honestly don't know much about it. That's so far out of my zone of influence I don't really have an answer.

3. What do you think about webcam modelling?

It's probably an easy way to make money and get comfortable performing on camera, but you have to work a lot and probably don't make a lot of money.

4. Finally, how long does it take to film all the scenes you need?

A scene generally takes a day to shoot. That's a full 10-hour day of setting up gear, shooting stills, blocking and shooting the video. Then I personally have a few more hours of backing up data, writing my notes on the shoot so months later I'm not trying to remember things like "I shot more of this from the other angle an hour later when I decided I wanted more" or something.

We've occasionally gone and shot more footage on a second day. but that's rare.

 

[barnabyjones]

Thanks for the insights.
I'm just fascinated by the whole process, the situation, peoples roles, the background work. As well as the finished product!

NO chance of me ever being able to participate, but great to hear from somebody who has been involved